Katie goes for a walk, as seen out the car window as we drive by. (Canon AE-1 Program, 50mm f/1.8 FD, Program mode, Fuji Reala, Costco developing, extreme crop from very center of negative limited by Costco's scan resolution.)

Katie's first birthday cake at Claim Jumper. (Nikon D5000, Nikon 35mm f/1.8, Neutral Picture Control with +1 saturation, Manual exposure at f/1.8 and 1/20th second at ISO 200, Tungsten WB, Nikon SB-400 flash with CTO gel. What? The CTO is an orange filter that makes the bluish light of the flash match the tungsten lights in the restaurant. I set the camera to match all of it, so the fill flash looks natural. Without the WB and filter tricks, Katie would have looked blue and the background would have been scary red. Without the flash, Katie would have been a dark blob.)

Today I saw Katie make her first completely unassisted steps. We were at Noni's in Palm Desert, and Katie was standing while bracing herself on one of Noni's bar stools. Katie wanted to come see me, and she took two steps all by herself to make it the one foot (30cm) to come grab my leg,.

Down here 150 miles (200km) south in lazy La Jolla, we felt it only as a quick rocking back and forth for a second, at which point I called up the real earthquake information, realized it was "just LA," and went back to sleep.